All MLAs who are not cabinet ministers or the opposition leader can run to be Speaker. The Speaker acts as the legislative assembly’s presiding officer and ensures the assembly is carried out efficiently and according to the rules. They are also expected to be impartial and independent of all partisan politics.

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